"Bowflex 2nd Time Around"

by Amanda Duncan
(Searcy, Arkansas, usa)

I recieved a bowflex from my mother in January or 2001. I began the fast fat lose meal plan that came with my Bowflex and set out by mid January on my weight loss journey.

I worked out 3 days a week at first, but then I began to always work out every other day. Slowly the weight began to come off. By the end of the first six weeks I had lost about 15 pounds and several inches. I was very upset because even though it was a steady slow healthy pace of weight loss, my husband began just cuttin back and doing the bowflex 3 days a week and he lost around 35 pound in less than six weeks.(that sucked).

I had to add walking to my routine and several minutes of rowing but by the end of May I was fit and toned and down about 38 pounds.

While trying to lose that last 5 pounds I (that would not come off) something else was going on. I was pregnant. We called her the BOWFLEX BABY. Our son was 8 and half years old and we had not used birth control for about 5 years. We had never set out to have another child but something must have been wrong for nothing to have happened in 5 years but BOWFLEX and now we have a healthy happy 6 year old girl(and 15 year old boy) the Bowflex Baby.

So I know in my own mind that the muscle that I built using the bowflex not only gave me the gift of my own health and life but the gift of another LIFE in the form of a LITTLE GIRL.

Now all these years later I am fat again and Monday I started my bowflex again so here is to the second time around may it last a Lifetime this go around.